Tell Brak y Hamoukar: urbanismo en el norte de Mesopotamia en la primera mitad del IV milenio a.C.

Abstract

The archaeological excavations in Tell Brak and Hamoukar, in the Upper Mesopotamia, confirm that during the 5th millennium BC and, specially, throughout the first part of the fourth millennium BC, there were a significant urban development,  before that in Lower Mesopotamia. This paper examines the implications that these discoveries have in the dispute about the origin of the city in the Ancient Near East.